Great points. I realize how we are influenced, nay manipulated by the constant marketing around us. They use our emotions to get us to do something. At least they try to. I wrote in my book about influence on a personal level, "Influences and Influencers". It wasn't so much about our weakness to be influenced as more about those who have an impact on how we think and act. I never came at it from the emotional but the logical side. Guess I have a whole new thing to think about.